A week after the slide, a spokesman for the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management said, “…the hillside that collapsed had been considered ‘very safe’ and the slide came out of nowhere.”
Recognized tribes, with billions in gambling revenue to fund generous political donations, have worked to erase the unrecognized Duwamish Tribe as a threat and a tribe.
Russia's history is marked by violence and assassinations. Somehow, in some way, Russian politicians must find ways to enable the peaceful transfer of power.
The Old West may feel like ancient history to most of us, but one of the bloodiest and most colorful of western outlaws ended his days right here in our Pacific Northwest just 119 years ago when Seattle was already a bustling, modern metropolis.
We are not likely to find such antique sites in Kirkland because of the lake’s inexorable rise. If we find antecedents of historic lake villages, they will be underwater.
The legal protections Seattle affords its trees are minimal compared to other American cities. For instance, New York and Boston aggressively protect their urban forests. New York has 7 million trees, and it’s not clear to me that Seattle even knows how many it has.